House distractions

The bathroom lights have been flickering for the last month or so. Always a comforting sign. It didn't appear to be anything on the load end (the devices that use power), so I narrowed it down to the line/supply end (where the power gets distributed.)

The previous owners did everything on the cheap, and this included the breakers. I'm not sure what brand they are, but not one I had ever heard of. The thing is, about 6 months ago I had to replace a couple breakers that were shorting out, causing my internet to randomly drop off. That was hard to find and I should have wholesale replaced all the old breakers then.

You can see why the lights were flickering:

I'm lucky this didn't do something worse. Fortunately, it's an easy fix to swap it out. Went with the gold standard Square D breakers.

Here pretty soon I'll be replacing the whole electrical panel. Always something....